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August-2002 issue
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The Informer
AN ACADEMIC CAN BE GOOD CEO MATERIAL. You snigger. A CEO from academia, who also happens to be a woman, can take a company public. You snigger again. An academic—who also happens to be an immigrant female—is the CEO of a public...
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Global Management
"I Practice What I Preach"
IF YOU WANT A CAREER THAT is satisfying and provides for personal and professional growth, I would recommend being part of...
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EDA Champion
DR. JAYANTA ROY BELIEVES in repeating his formula for success. In 1997, Summit Design acquired his first...
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The Pioneer
Why do you think India is viewed more as an “IT services” destination than as a “product” destination?...
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Breaking The Bar Code
THIS IS 2007. POSSIBLY 2008.YOU ARE SHOPPING at your favorite grocery chain outlet.You choose a can of pasta sauce. As you...
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View From the Top
Editorial
WHEN I LIVED IN NEW JERSEY a few years back, it seemed as if every third Indian I met owned an IT consulting firm. Lately,...
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Less is More
Soon after he became prime minister,Winston Churchill wrote to the First Lord of the Admiralty to ask, "Pray Sir, tell me on...
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Openfile
Whose War Is It Anyway?
THE RECENT THREAT OF major war between India and Pakistan, and the consequent evacuation warnings issued by the U.S. State...
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Of Mammals and Men
IS THERE A WAY OF HARNESSING THE extraordinary capacity of the HIV virus to deliver genes while rendering the normally lethal...
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Where Chips and Cells Collide: Bioinformatics
ASK FIVE SCIENTISTS TO define "biotechnology" and you'll get seven definitions. The nebulousness of the term has led the...
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Towards Data-Driven Micromarketing
WHAT ARE SOME OF THE challenges involved in marketing a pharmaceutical product, and in what ways is it different from...
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"Give Me Your Failed Formulas"
IF SOMEONE COULD PLUG INTO THE ENERGY Dr.Victoria Hale exudes, it would drive a car across the continent and back, and still...
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Below the Radar
Chip off the Indian Block
A DECADE AND A HALF BACK, U.S. software firms shuddered to enter India, as the economy was not yet liberalized. Around the...
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Device Platform Shootout
PALM, WIN-CE, SYMBIAN, J2ME, BREW–THE platform choices for a mobile device programmer today are myriad and often...
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TV, My Way!
2004. It is a Friday evening. Mom comes home after her usual hustle and bustle at work, takes her shoes off, sets her briefcase...
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Business
Scribework Blues
IT HAS BEEN EIGHT LONG years since the first of India’s medical transcription companies set up shop in Bangalore. From...
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From Pizza to Chip Delivery
JESSE SINGH IS AN ENTREPRENEUR IN THE purest sense of the word. He arrived in the U.S. in 1986 after six years of working as...
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Keeping Plan B In Sight
PLAN A : TA K E YO U R company to an IPO and generate better liquidity. With the bears showing no sign of letting the...
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Inbox
Letters to the editor
BPO Brou-ha-ha The recent issue of siliconindia (June 2002) extols Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) as the biggest thing...
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VC Talk
VC Interview
AR: At what point in the life of a biotech company do you choose to invest? SC: I like to invest in the very early stages of...
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Wall Street View
Put Me in Municipal Bonds Now!
THE NASDAQ JUST HIT A FIVE YEAR LOW AND you’re fed up with the losses. So you tell your financial advisor, “get me...
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What Ails The Market: A Broken Web Of Trust
The market is in a depressing downward spiral. A staggering wave of corporate bad news has hit the headlines. Masses of...
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